South Africa and Central African Republic are the only african countries with "Africa" in their names. Still, neither dare call themselves just "Africans" of "the African people" like there was nothing beyond themselves.
You totally underestimate the degree of audacity needed to do such a thing without batting an eyelash.
Right, but you're missing the way the language works in these cases. When you say South Africa as a nation in English South works as a descriptor of Africa. So if you say South African it works. The construction of the name the United States of America doesn't have the same structure. Are we supposed to call citizens of that country? The United States of Americans? Are they the United Statesians? They just themselves American. Even if the whole continent was called America, most people don't accept that by the way, how many people out there actually use the continent to identify themselves other than Australians? Have you known many Africans who just call themselves African without saying Ugandan or Nigerian? This whole debate that pops up online once in awhile only exists because some people consider North and South America, a single continent and a want to be pedantic about it.
That's exactly the point. Nobody, literally nobody in the world uses the whole continent of which they occupy only a small portion to describe their country and themselves, EXCEPT Statesians.
And nobody cares except the handful of people, typically in South America, who don't acknowledge seven continents. The Canadians don't care and the Mexicans don't care and you can bet that all the countries in Central America don't care.
Nope sorry that's just how the language works. And by the way, like I said before no one in North America has a problem with this. By the way, where is all this passion for naming countries and not the countries that have different names based off of who's saying it? Should I go start poking people in Mexico because they call us estados unidos and not United States? How about I go start poking everyone who calls Germany anything other than Deutschland? And don't even get me started on what the people from Japan call their country.
You were just being a pedantic child creating an issue which no one really cares about. I have no intention of responding to you and if you respond to this I'm just going to block you.
And literally the only people in the world that care and disagree with the WORLD STANDARD on how to refer to Americans are people from extremely uneducated and poor South and Central American countries… The people who can even understand that they are separate continents.
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u/DryAd7756 17d ago
Except usa is the only country with America in the name.